This 1-day virtual course, targeted towards developers and DevOps, focuses on creating custom metrics to monitor your applications/services with Splunk IM. Learn to instrument applications/services to send in custom metrics that characterize the application of service. Define relevant metadata for your metrics to let you find, filter and aggregate the metrics that you want to chart or alert on. Create charts and custom dashboards to visualize these custom metrics. Create detectors to monitor the metrics to alert when there are any issues with the application or service.
Learn the concepts and apply the knowledge through discussions and hands-on activities

• Setting the foundation
• Send application Metrics
• Manage metadata
• Visualize and Alert on application metrics

Required:

• Course: Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Fundamentals
• Ability to use the command line or terminal
• Familiarity with using EST APIs and ability to use cURL

Module 1 – Setting the Foundation

• Identify components of the Splunk IM data model
• Discuss the use case for sending an application metrics
• Distinguish between authentication tokens

Module 2 – Ingesting Metrics in Splunk IM

Module 3 – Sending Custom Events to Splunk IM

Module 4 – Manage Metadata

Module 5 – Visualize and Alert on Custom Metrics